So, in theory it should find its way onto the APDL tribute site – but WimpBasic was a Clares product, and the site currently says that section is in ‘alpha testing’ (and has done for some time, I think).

1 However, being 32-bit doesn’t necessarily mean it’s compatible with any of the newer platforms.

However, being 32-bit doesn’t necessarily mean it’s compatible with any of the newer platforms.

Having looked at some items from the APDL site1 that were labelled as 32 bit, and having shoved them through Armalyser to reveal the specific bits that were not in fact 32 bit compliant I can say that the label “32-bit” isn’t always true.
Moving on from that there are, as you say, other issues to consider on the newer platforms.

The Gonzo method: somebody went and did a rough conversion on a 26 bit machine, but never tested it on an actual 32 bit machine. The result is… interesting.

This was my guess. I think some people had, er, “issues” about buying the 32-bit machine and didn’t want to “farm out” the testing.
While the price back in the Iyonix era might have been a hurdle these days not testing with a Pi is just penny pinching

The Victorian method: Was written/converted for the Iyonix. Which ain’t exactly like modern machines.

I think there may be… (rummages for appropriate word) psychological… issues involved.

I did say there were “issues” for some people.
Interestingly I’ve been working with a local hospice and the local primary care trust on something labelled C are A nd S upport T oward L ifes E nd which involves computers and is a good thing

Let’s start by not shoving grannie in a nursing home, never visiting her, and leaving her to die alone and scared surrounded by mostly indifferent care assistants that will actually have the audacity to complain that dealing with a dying person is stopping them from going out on their tenth unofficial smoking break.

Being “the emotionless one (and a non-smoker)”, I was sort of the go-to person of choice to sit with the person drawing their last breaths. ME. Because obviously it just wasn’t important enough for the families to bother.

My mother died in June, aged 94, back in her own flat for two weeks after a spell in hospital. I wasn’t actually there when she died – my wife and I had been a few hours earlier – but my son and my brother both were.

I just went digging around in my backups to see if I had any WimpBasic stuff around. I do – and, to my astonishment, it works on my BBxM.

I wrote a linear circuit analysis programme years ago, and ported it to WimpBasic. (My app is based on ICAP – Interactive Curcuit Analisys Programme – which used to run on a Honeywell DDP516 computer at Southampton University. The DDP516 was implemented in DTL, the forerunner of TTL. Anyone remember it?) I have the WimpBasic module version 2.12 (06 Jan 2006).

What I don’t have, or at least can’t find, is the compiler. Is there a version anywhere that runs on a BBxM or a Pi?